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Article by Jack Wellman
Jack Wellman is a father and grandfather and a Christian author, freelance writer, and pastor of Central Christian Church in Lincoln, KS & also a Prison Minister. He did his graduate work at Moody Theological Seminary. His books are inexpensive paperbacks that are theological in nature: “Teaching Children The Gospel/How to Raise Godly Children,“ “Do Babies Go To Heaven?/Why Does God Allow Suffering?,“ "The Great Omission; Reaching the Lost for Christ," and “Blind Chance or Intelligent Design?, Empirical Methodologies & the Bible."
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In your article you said we really can’t know for sure how far the gospel has reached, but the New Testament does reveal to us how far the good news has gone.
Romans 1:8 “First, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for all of you, because your faith is being reported all over the world.”
Romans 10:18 “But I ask: Did they not hear [the good news]? Of course they did: “Their voice has gone out into all the earth, their words to the ends of the world.”
Colossians 1:6 “…In the same way, the gospel is bearing fruit and growing throughout the whole world…”
Colossians 1:23 “…This is the gospel that you heard and that has been proclaimed to every creature under heaven, and of which I, Paul, have become a servant.”
Jesus predicted the gospel of the kingdom would be proclaimed throughout the whole world before the generation of his day passed away (Matthew 24:14 + Matthew 24:34), and Paul makes it clear to us that Jesus’ prophecy came true during Paul’s lifetime! Hallelujah!
In case some reading this are confused about what the definition of WORLD is in the New Testament, just read Luke 2:1 “In those days a decree went out from Caesar Augustus that all the world should be registered.” During the lifetime of Jesus & Paul the world was understood to be the Roman empire. It is estimated that 25% to 50% of the world’s population lived in the Roman Empire around 100 AD.